OSAF Status overview, Sept 28 (three weeks)

September 28th, 2005 at 4:27 pm (2 years, 7 months ago) by Lisa Dusseault under Chandler Desktop Development, Chandler Server Development

Highlights

  • Chandler feature complete date is in two weeks. Currently standing at 270 code bugs targetted at 0.6. Bug scrub is under way. Heikki is release manager for 0.6.
  • Cosmo release 0.2 shipped September 19 with basic CalDAV support, ticket support and user management interfaces.
  • Scooby implementation is underway.

Design, PM

  • Progress: Many new icons checked in. Prepared and distributed Chandler in a Nutshell presentation. Prepared and presented 2 year plan leading to Chandler 1.0 including feature clusters and maturity levels.
  • Plans: Continue work documenting Chandler design mental models. Preparing for David Allen discussions. Participate in branding discussions. Think about Chandler 1.0 ACL requirements.
Applications
  • Progress: Fixed 95 bugs (over three weeks) for 0.6 M6, including drag and drop work, toolbar polish, CPIA scripting, sidebar refactoring, week and detail view bug fixes.
  • Plans: Scrub remaining 0.6 bugs. Continue work on M6 bug list.
  • Personnel: Job opening in Application team to be announced shortly.

Services and Dev Platform

  • Progress: Fixed 80 bugs. I18n framework checkin, including wrapping all GUI strings in a translation method. Timezone and recurrence bug fixes. CalConnect Interop testing and bug fixes. Parcel loading and performance improvements.
  • Plans: Continue performance improvements. Finish last tidbits of feature work quickly and shift resources onto performance and bugs.

QA, Build and Release

  • Progress: Many build bug fixes (15), including automated performance testing improvements and epydoc cleanup. Defined some principles for triaging 0.6 bugs around calendar use cases.
  • Plans: Continue bug scrub of 0.6 bugs. Intensive feature testing as last 0.6 features show up in Chandler.
  • Personnel: Job opening in QA to be announced shortly.

Cosmo and Scooby

  • Progress: Cosmo release 0.2 out and 0.3 plan reviewed. Scooby now in SVN (including demo which will be shown in staff meeting).
  • Plans: Start working on Cosmo 0.3 and Scooby AJAX requests/responses.
  • Personnel: Bobby Rullo joined Scooby team, working in New York for first 5 months.

IT

  • Progress: Budget proposal prepared. Phone administration defined. TWiki security updates installed.
  • Plans: Budget review, cosmo demo update to 0.2. Server backup reliability improvements.

Community

  • Progress: CalConnect hosted here Sept 13-15. Westwood Advisory Council went off well Sept 22.
  • Plans: Prepare panel for Educause Oct 16-21. Submit Mellon Foundation reports.
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